diff --git a/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPlugin.java b/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPlugin.java
index 7c7b33a0..96b5befe 100644
--- a/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPlugin.java
+++ b/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPlugin.java
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.ScalaSourceDirectorySet;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskProvider;
+import org.gradle.util.GradleVersion;
 import play.twirl.gradle.internal.DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet;
+import play.twirl.gradle.internal.Gradle7TwirlSourceDirectorySet;
 
 /** A simple 'hello world' plugin. */
 public class TwirlPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
@@ -140,10 +142,18 @@ private TaskProvider<TwirlCompile> createTwirlCompileTask(
 
   private TwirlSourceDirectorySet getTwirlSourceDirectorySet(SourceSet sourceSet) {
     String displayName = ((DefaultSourceSet) sourceSet).getDisplayName();
-    TwirlSourceDirectorySet twirlSourceDirectorySet =
-        objectFactory.newInstance(
-            DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet.class,
-            objectFactory.sourceDirectorySet("twirl", displayName + " Twirl source"));
+    TwirlSourceDirectorySet twirlSourceDirectorySet;
+    if (GradleVersion.current().compareTo(GradleVersion.version("8.0")) < 0) { // Gradle < 8.0
+      twirlSourceDirectorySet =
+          objectFactory.newInstance(
+              Gradle7TwirlSourceDirectorySet.class,
+              objectFactory.sourceDirectorySet("twirl", displayName + " Twirl source"));
+    } else { // Gradle 8+
+      twirlSourceDirectorySet =
+          objectFactory.newInstance(
+              DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet.class,
+              objectFactory.sourceDirectorySet("twirl", displayName + " Twirl source"));
+    }
     twirlSourceDirectorySet.getFilter().include("**/*.scala.*");
     twirlSourceDirectorySet.getTemplateFormats().convention(DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_FORMATS);
     return twirlSourceDirectorySet;
diff --git a/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/internal/DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet.java b/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/internal/DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet.java
index 83c360b5..553a7145 100644
--- a/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/internal/DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet.java
+++ b/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/internal/DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet.java
@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ public DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet(
     this.sourceEncoding = objectFactory.property(String.class).convention(UTF_8.name());
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @deprecated Constructor for support Gradle 7.x
+   */
+  @Deprecated
+  public DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet(
+      SourceDirectorySet sourceDirectorySet, ObjectFactory objectFactory) {
+    super(sourceDirectorySet);
+    this.templateFormats = objectFactory.mapProperty(String.class, String.class);
+    this.templateImports = objectFactory.setProperty(String.class);
+    this.constructorAnnotations = objectFactory.listProperty(String.class);
+    this.sourceEncoding = objectFactory.property(String.class).convention(UTF_8.name());
+  }
+
   @Override
   public MapProperty<String, String> getTemplateFormats() {
     return templateFormats;
diff --git a/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/internal/Gradle7TwirlSourceDirectorySet.java b/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/internal/Gradle7TwirlSourceDirectorySet.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f79330e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gradle-twirl/src/main/java/play/twirl/gradle/internal/Gradle7TwirlSourceDirectorySet.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) from 2022 The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>, 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>
+ */
+package play.twirl.gradle.internal;
+
+import javax.inject.Inject;
+import org.gradle.api.file.SourceDirectorySet;
+import org.gradle.api.model.ObjectFactory;
+
+@Deprecated
+public class Gradle7TwirlSourceDirectorySet extends DefaultTwirlSourceDirectorySet {
+
+  @Inject
+  public Gradle7TwirlSourceDirectorySet(
+      SourceDirectorySet sourceDirectorySet, ObjectFactory objectFactory) {
+    super(sourceDirectorySet, objectFactory);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/AbstractFunctionalTest.java b/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/AbstractFunctionalTest.java
index c52bae43..6fca9429 100644
--- a/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/AbstractFunctionalTest.java
+++ b/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/AbstractFunctionalTest.java
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 import freemarker.template.Configuration;
 import freemarker.template.Template;
-import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ protected Path projectBuildPath(String path) {
   }
 
   @BeforeEach
-  void init() throws IOException, TemplateException {
+  void init() throws IOException {
     projectSourceDir = getProjectSourceDir();
     runner = GradleRunner.create().withProjectDir(projectDir).withPluginClasspath().forwardOutput();
 
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ protected String templateProcess(String template, Map<String, Object> params) {
     return writer.toString();
   }
 
-  protected BuildResult build(String... args) {
-    return runner.withArguments(args).build();
+  protected BuildResult build(String gradleVersion, String... args) {
+    return runner.withGradleVersion(gradleVersion).withArguments(args).build();
   }
 }
diff --git a/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPluginFunctionalTest.java b/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPluginFunctionalTest.java
index d78c6032..7a25c959 100644
--- a/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPluginFunctionalTest.java
+++ b/gradle-twirl/src/test/java/play/twirl/gradle/TwirlPluginFunctionalTest.java
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 import org.gradle.testkit.runner.BuildTask;
 import org.gradle.testkit.runner.TaskOutcome;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;
 
 /** A simple functional test to check a Twirl Gradle Plugin. */
 public class TwirlPluginFunctionalTest extends AbstractFunctionalTest {
@@ -33,26 +34,30 @@ protected String getBuildFileContent() {
     return templateProcess("build.gradle.kts.ftlh", params);
   }
 
-  @Test
+  @ParameterizedTest
+  @ValueSource(strings = {"7.1.1", "7.6.2", "8.0.2", "8.3"})
   @DisplayName("Test simple Gradle project with Twirl HTML template")
-  void testSimpleGradleProject() throws IOException {
+  void testSimpleGradleProject(String gradleVersion) throws IOException {
     File simpleSources = projectPath("src").toFile();
     FileUtils.copyDirectory(projectSourcePath("src").toFile(), simpleSources);
 
-    BuildResult result = build("build");
+    BuildResult result = build(gradleVersion, "build");
 
     BuildTask compileTwirlResult = result.task(":compileTwirl");
     assertThat(compileTwirlResult).isNotNull();
     assertThat(compileTwirlResult.getOutcome()).isEqualTo(TaskOutcome.SUCCESS);
     assertThat(projectBuildPath("generated/sources/twirl/main/a/b/html/c.template.scala"))
-        .isNotEmptyFile();
+        .isNotEmptyFile()
+        .binaryContent()
+        .asString()
+        .contains("import java.lang._", "class c @java.lang.Deprecated()");
 
     BuildTask compileScalaResult = result.task(":compileScala");
     assertThat(compileScalaResult).isNotNull();
     assertThat(compileScalaResult.getOutcome()).isEqualTo(TaskOutcome.SUCCESS);
     assertThat(projectBuildPath("classes/scala/main/a/b/html/c.class")).isNotEmptyFile();
 
-    result = build("build");
+    result = build(gradleVersion, "build");
 
     compileTwirlResult = result.task(":compileTwirl");
     assertThat(compileTwirlResult).isNotNull();
diff --git a/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/build.gradle.kts.ftlh b/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/build.gradle.kts.ftlh
index 0425e83b..8732cfe5 100644
--- a/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/build.gradle.kts.ftlh
+++ b/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/build.gradle.kts.ftlh
@@ -15,3 +15,12 @@ dependencies {
 twirl {
   scalaVersion.set("${scalaVersion}")
 }
+
+sourceSets {
+  main {
+    twirl {
+      templateImports.add("java.lang._")
+      constructorAnnotations.add("@java.lang.Deprecated()")
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/src/main/twirl/a/b/c.scala.html b/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/src/main/twirl/a/b/c.scala.html
index 7f0f12e5..31770d9d 100644
--- a/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/src/main/twirl/a/b/c.scala.html
+++ b/gradle-twirl/src/test/resources/simple/src/main/twirl/a/b/c.scala.html
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@
  * Copyright (C) from 2022 The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>, 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com> *
  ****************************************************************************************************************************************************@
 
+@this(str: String)
 @(name: String)
 Hello, @name.